Meshtastic use case: Sales/Delivery Vehicle Integration

[lux]

Suggestion for @geeksville… Maybe we should have a category for discussion on use cases for Meshtastic.

I have been trying to determine the best way to use Lora as a method to transmit the GPS location of my Sales/Delivery Vehicles for about a year. Meshtastic give me the method to…

1. Bi-directional communication
2. Extend the range of two single Lora devices (through mesh communication.
3. Add compute intelligence to my vehicles.

My ultimate goal will be to have a base Meshtastic device logging GPS positions and sending sales and historical customer information to the vehicle based on GPS location as the vehicle is approaching a customer address.

[CycloMies]

More use cases can be found here:

Real World Use Cases

Now you’re contradicting yourself. It seems like you’re agreeing with my while telling me I’m wrong. I’m okay with that.

Extension of the functionality of devices Meshtastic

I apologize in advance for errors in the text, because I translated from Russian into Google translator. I propose adding the following simple but very useful functions in Meshtastic On any of the free GPIOs, anyone can solder a button. The device code processes the click of a button and as a result sends a distress signal (SOS) in the form of a text message. In addition, in the Android application, you can program an audio response to receive a text distress signal. Together with the distres…

[lux]

@geeksville maybe my thread should be merged with the real world use cases thread instead.